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		Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Susan L. Taylor
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Everywhere you go on the continent of Europe at this hour you see the conflict between militarism and industrialism. You see the expansion of industrial power pushed forward by the energy, hope, and thrift of men, and you see the development arrested, diverted, crippled, and defeated by measures which are dictated by military considerations.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				William Graham Sumner
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Film provides an opportunity to marry the power of ideas with the power of images.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Steven Bochco
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		You remember how you were taught to write. Your mother put a pencil in your hand, took your hand in hers, and began to move it. Since you did not know at all what she meant to do, you left your hand completely free in hers. This is like the power of God in our lives.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Anthony of Sourozh
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jean Rostand
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I am not a glutton - I am an explorer of food
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Erma Bombeck
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		It is in the nature of a group and its power to turn against independence, the property of individual strength.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Hannah Arendt
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Gautama Buddha
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Harness the Power of Accelerated Failure - the faster you fail, the faster you succeed.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Bill Bonner
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The less government we have, the better, - the fewer laws, and the less confided power. The antidote to this abuse of formal Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ralph Waldo Emerson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Knowledge isn't power, applied knowledge is power.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Eric Thomas
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I appeal to women not to let themselves become corrupted by male power. Emancipation is something more than a 'ticket' to serve in the army.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Petra Kelly
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		No matter who you are, no matter what you do, you absolutely, positively do have the power to change.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Bill Phillips
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		With power comes the abuse of power. And where there are bosses, there are crazy bosses. It's nothing new.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Judd Rose
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Harry Dresden: You can never tell how someone is going to handle power - not until you hand it to them and see what they do with it.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jim Butcher
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		God does not give beforehand the grace with which to bear His blows; He does not heal before he smites. In your terror at the thought of parting with Horace, you left entirely out of account the sustaining power that would hold you up and bear you through those awful moments; you suffered in advance, and wholly in your own strength. But how many, how many persons I have heard say, ‘I am a marvel to myself! This blow, so long dreaded, has not slain me, as I ever believed it would; I stagger under it, but I live to wonder at the strength God gives me, and in which I bear it.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Elizabeth Prentiss